This is one of my favorite Starfleet vessels along with Soveiring class, THG Intrepid class and most favorite of them all, the Constitution Refit class, may be because it was the very first Star Strek ship I saw as a child, even before the TOS one...
I like a lot of other ship types too, the one I find less favourable in my opinion, is the Galaxy class, although a magnificent ship, it lacks something to have real shape balance and awesomeness, like a top sensor/tropedo array much like outfitted Nebulas and of course a top warp nacelle like the one of the special Enterprise refit in last TNG episode,
I know it is not real since it was in a universe variant caused by Q, but still, watch Hidden Frontier fan series and you'll see an Excelsior Galaxy class like that special Enterprise with added warp nacelle and canons... That becomes the hell of a badass Battleship !
The original Galaxy class looks like a leisure cruise/pacquebot starship for interstellar tourists...